{"id":3156,"date":"2006-06-08T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2017-12-20T10:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:30:59","slug":"a-fiendish-consistency-is-another-hobgoblin-of-little-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/08\/a-fiendish-consistency-is-another-hobgoblin-of-little-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fiendish Consistency Is Another Hobgoblin of Little Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis teachers&#8217; union hasn&#8217;t met a compulsion it didn&#8217;t like, and apparently doesn&#8217;t know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/0B398E88045BFAF98625718600151B62?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">what &quot;fair&quot; means<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>St. Louis teachers have clashed with Superintendent Creg Williams lately over teacher absenteeism, payroll system glitches and the requirement that 1,000 teachers must reapply for their jobs. The teachers even passed a no-confidence vote on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the union representing teachers will sit down with Williams &#8211; possibly within a week &#8211; to solicit his support for a measure that would require district employees who have declined to join the union to pay union dues.<\/p>\n<p>If adopted by the St. Louis School Board, the &#8220;fair share proposal&#8221; introduced at a Tuesday night work session would require teachers, clerical workers, safety officers and teacher assistants who are not members of Local 420 to pay union dues. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The teachers&#8217; union plays its role in squandering compulsively-collected taxpayer money.  Why shouldn&#8217;t it feel it has the right to demand the right to squander compelled contributions from non-members, too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis teachers&#8217; union hasn&#8217;t met a compulsion it didn&#8217;t like, and apparently doesn&#8217;t know what &quot;fair&quot; means: St. Louis teachers have clashed with Superintendent Creg Williams lately over teacher absenteeism, payroll system glitches and the requirement that 1,000 teachers must reapply for their jobs. The teachers even passed a no-confidence vote on Sunday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18721,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions\/18721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}